Category Archives: A Course in Miracles

Christ is the state that Jesus reached by listening only to the Holy Spirit and thus bringing his will into perfect alignment with God’s. Christ is not opposite ego but is the truth that remains when the illusion of ego is undone. Christ is the one who remembers their oneness, and therefore teaches only love.Continue reading “A Course in Miracles: What is Christ?”

In Monday’s newsletter I wrote about the way in which judgment arises as a replacement for Vision. As the course asks: why judge when you can see? Judgment is a form of interpretation, and interpretation is never without ego involvement (T-12.I.2:1). This is not a crime against God or Nature! It’s simply another form ofContinue reading “ACIM: Changing our Mind Together”

I want to point out a two-step process that has been very helpful in my practice of A Course in Miracles specifically and, more generally, in my practice of becoming happy and peaceable to a Christ-like degree. The first step is learning to discern between the Voice of the Holy Spirit and the voice ofContinue reading “Choosing between Two Teachers”

There is no way to God, just like there is no way to the self. You are already fully present; so, too, is God. Wholeness is not waiting to be reconstructed; it is waiting to be recognized. The Wholeness of God, which is His peace, cannot be appreciated except by a whole mind that recognizesContinue reading “ACIM and the End of War”

The use of miracles as spectacles to induce belief is a misunderstanding of their purpose (T-I.10:1). There are really two aspects to this principle, both of which are given to help us be in right relation both with the world and our body, and with the mind which is confused about world and body andContinue reading “The Tenth Principle of A Course in Miracles”

Miracles are a kind of exchange. Like all expressions of love, which are always miraculous in the true sense, the exchange reverses the physical laws. They bring more love both to the giver and the receiver (T-1.I.9:1-3). It takes two to make a miracle. Or, to put in another way, it takes two to rememberContinue reading “The Ninth Principle of A Course in Miracles”